Philip W. Chung
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Philip W. Chung is a Korean American playwright, co-founder of Los Angeles-based Asian American theatre group, Lodestone Theatre Ensemble, and its current co-artistic director.
[edit] Career
Chung has written for theatre, film and television, including the ABC-TV series, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Also a journalist, his column about Asian Americans in the film industry, "Reel Stories," is featured in AsianWeek. He produced and directed the short film, Harlequin in 2004. Currently he is directing Kono: Living in Silence, a documentary about Charlie Chaplin's Japanese American personal secretary, Toraichi Kono.
Chung has taught Asian American studies courses at UC Santa Cruz and playwriting at the L.A. Cultural Affairs Dept. and the Asian American Writers Workshop.
[edit] Plays
- Home is Where the Han Is
- Laughter, Joy & Loneliness & Sex & Sex & Sex & Sex
- The Happy Hour
- Dead of Night
- Yellowface
- The Golden Hour
- One Nation, Under God
- My Man Kono
